1) Location: St. Marys - NPS orientation on backcountry safety
(Bears)
2) Location: Glacier National Park - Theme: Park issues Host: National Park Service
3) USGS Presentation on the Northern Rocky Mtn. Science Center

American Frontiers exhibit on US Geological Survey

Location: Spotted Bear Ranger Station – Program/Cook-out
Themes: Living History, Wilderness, Ranger History.

Host: USDA Forest Service, Flathead National Forest.
Contact: Gary Dahlgren 406-758-5269

Northern Team will stay in Aspen Grove Campground, near
Rogers Pass in the Helena National Forest, near Helena, MT. This site is significant for being on the Lewis and Clark route, which is recognized as the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. The talk will be presented by the USDA Forest Service campground host.

Contact: Martie Schramm 406-362-4265

Location: Cromwell Dixon Campground
Topic: Historic Preservation/Mine Reclamation

Host: USDA Forest Service, Helena National Forest
Contact: Kurt Cuneo 406-449-5490

Location: Homestake Site
Program Topic: Heritage Themes

Host: USDA Forest Service, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
Contact: Jack DeGolla – 406-683-3984

When the Trekkers arrive at Pipestone Pass, on MT Hwy 2, they will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on a newly-constructed segment of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, which like the American Frontiers route, stretched between Mexico and Canada.

This event will highlight America's public lands and the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, which follows the great watershed divide between rivers feeding into the Pacific Ocean and and rivers feeding into the Atlantic Ocean.

Location: Humbug Spires Primitive Area
Tour of the popular rock climbing area hosted by the BLM.

Contact: Butte Field Office 406-533-7600

Location: Birch Creek Education Center

Host: University of Montana- Western
Contact: Tera Baver (406) 683-7891

The Center is managed by The University of Montana-Western (UM-Western). During the mid 1980's, the Bender Conference Center was constructed with dinning facilities and additional overnight accommodations. Since then, the Birch Creek Center continues to guide experiential, hands-on ecological learning for several hundred students each year, hosts various workshops, trainings, weddings, family reunions, and coordinates Elderhostel programs.

Location: Clark Canyon Reservoir.

Theme: Lewis and Clark. This campground is along the Lewis
and Clark National Historic Trail and close to where the Corps of Discovery camped.

Contact: Bureau of Reclamation, (406) 247-6075

Location: Clark Canyon Reservoir

Just as Lewis and Clark navigated west to lands unknown, so will the northern trek team paddle in dugout canoes across Clark Canyon Reservoir. From the opposite shore, they will switch to a more modern form of transport, and ride ATVs most of the way to their campsite.

Host: Bureau of Reclamation
Contact: Stephen Morehouse 406-683-6472

Location: Island Park, Targhee National Forest

Program on Red Rocks Lake Ecology

Red Rock Lakes NWR, just on the other side of the Centennial Mountains, in Montana, is primarily a high elevation mountain wetland-riparian area. Red Rock Creek flows through the upper end of the Centennial Valley, within which the Refuge lies, creating the impressive Upper Red Rock Lake, River Marsh, and Lower Red Rock Lake marshlands. The rugged Centennial Mountains border the Refuge on the south, catching the snows of winter that replenish the Refugeís lakes and marshes. These wetlands provide secluded habitat for the trumpeter swan, white-faced ibis, and Shiras moose. The Refuge includes subirrigated meadows or "fens", grasslands, and forest as well.

This minimally-altered natural diversity provides habitat for other species such as sandhill cranes, curlews, peregrine falcons, eagles, numerous hawks and owls, badgers, wolverines, bears, and wolves (in the backcountry), native fish such as Arctic grayling and westslope cutthroat trout, moose, and pronghorn antelope.

Host: USGS - Rick Sojda
American Frontiers exhibit on US Geological Survey

Location: Yellowstone National Park
School Programs

Host: National Park Service

Location: Yellowstone National Park

Park Tour and evening program with NPS and USGS on Park issues and Greater Yellowstone Initiative.

Host: National Park Service, USGS
American Frontiers exhibit on US Geological Survey

Location: National Elk Refuge in Jackson, WY
Theme: Wildlife (elk) - Program and tour

Host: US Fish and Wildlife Service

1) Fire Management Information Program
Host: National Interagency Fire Center, USFS, BLM
Contact: Janelle Smith 208-387-5473

2) Grand Teton NP Program and tour;
Host: National Park Service


b) USGS - Stream Gauging Station presentation (Moose Jct.)
American Frontiers exhibit on US Geological Survey

c) USGS - Cutthroat Trout issues
American Frontiers exhibit on US Geological Survey

Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Event

Herds of wild horses roam free across the lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. To keep herd sizes viable, the BLM regularly rounds up the wild mustangs, then adopts them out to good homes.

Host:Bureau of Land Management, Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Program

Location: Emigrant Springs, Wyoming
Host: National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office

From St. Louis, MO to this area of Wyoming, all routes west were one;a fairly well-worn path along the Platte River. South Pass, just east of Kemmerer, is the lowest point of the Rocky Mountains, and so a logical place to cross the Continental Divide. From here, the trail divided, heading to Oregon, California, and Salt Lake City, depending on whether the travelers sought farmland, gold, or salvation.

Location: Fossil Buttes National Monument
Host: National Park Service

After the presentation on geology and paleontology, Team North will go fishing in the Green River.

Location: Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, on the Green River
Program on Refuge Issues

Host: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Location:Trona mining site near Green River, WY
Flaming Gorge area
Mine Tour and program

Trona Mining Site, BLM Lands/Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge/South Pass City State Park

Issues will focus on mining, both current and historic. At one time South Pass City was the largest town in Wyoming, as miners toiled to bring gold and other precious metals out of the hills. Today it is a ghost town owned by the State of Wyoming, and operated as a state park.

Nearby, miners are still busy toiling away to mine trona, or soda ash, one of the most widely-used minerals in the world. Trona is extracted from several mines in Wyoming, the largest of which is this one outside of Green River. The shafts are so large, you can drive a truck through them! Public lands in Wyoming lead the world in production of trona, with 16,517,509 tons mined in underground facilities near Rock Springs in 2001. Royalties of $11,603,000 were paid on 4,420,789 tons extracted from Federal leases.


Host: Bureau of Land Management, Rock Springs Field Office

Location: Expedition Island/Green River

200 years ago, mountain men began using the Green River as a highway to ferry their furs downriver. Later, John Wesley Powell explored the length of this lovely river from Wyoming down through Utah and Colorado. Team North will enjoy a barbeque and a talk on Powell and historic trails in the area.

White Mountain/Pilot Butte, on BLM lands north of Rock Springs

Topics include Wild Horses, Petroglyphs, Back County Byways, Native American Issues.

The Bureau of Land Management has been working with tribal elders from a half-dozen area tribes who have historically used these lands. The tribes have identified several areas which they consider sacred sites or other sites central to traditional Native American religions, including the petroglyphs at White Mountains, which were created over a period of about 800 years.

Other historic features of the area are around South Pass, where the Overland Trail crossed the Continental Divide. Just east of here. the Overland Trail divides into the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, and the Mormon Trail. Pilot Butte was an important marker for the emigrants, and later for Pony Express Riders. Today, this area is home to a large herd of wild horses.

Jack Morrow Hills/Sand Dunes/Indian Gap, Steamboat Mountain, Red Desert.

OHV Issues

The Jack Morrow Hills area of the Red Desert is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The region contains the Killpecker Sand Dunes, which are partly protected within Sand Dunes Wilderness Study Area. The other part of the dunes is not protected, and is a popular destination among OHV users. The BLM has to balance ecosystem health in the dunes with ever-increasing OHV use.

Little Red Mountain/Red Creek Habitat Improvement Area/Firehole Canyon Campground.

Programs on Wildlife Habitats, Cherokee Trail, Issues at Flaming Gorge NRA


Host: USDA Forest Service, Ashley National Forest

Location: Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
Boat tour and discussion

Host: USDA Forest Service, Ashley National Forest
Bureau of Reclamation

Location: Wasatch-Cache NF, Utah and Wyoming, south of Mountain View, WY
Event: Program and tour of the Wasatch-Cache Petroleum Showcase

Hosts: Merit Energy Company will be hosting the tour and
providing lunch.

Team Joining Ceremony - Pine Valley Campground
Barbecue/Reception celebration of ending
of Trek w/dignitaries. By invitation only. –

Host: PLIA, Wasatch-Cache National Forest

This Is The Place Heritage Park, Salt Lake City
National Public Lands Day

Large public event to celebrate National Public Lands Day and the conclusion of American Frontiers: A Public Lands Journey. Re-enactment of team joining ceremony, Smokey hot air balloon, exhibits, entertainment, dignitaries.


Host: PLIA